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Doctors' Way of Working: Long Hours, Training, Secondary Jobs, and Desire to Work

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  • Atsuhiro Yamada

    (Faculty of Economics, Keio University)

  • Nobuyuki Izumida

    (Department of Empirical Social Security Research, National Institute for Population and Social Security Research)

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This paper utilizes a large, nationally representative micro data-set, the "Employment Status Survey (2007, 2012)," which is administered by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications every five years, to investigate whether doctors' way of working is different from that of other kinds of occupations to give an insight for on-going debate on regulating labor standard of doctors. In particular, we compare doctors employed under regular status working more than 200 days per year with specialized and technical professions or nurses under the same employment conditions. Based on cross tabulations, we find that compared with the specialized and technical professions, the doctors have longer working hours, receive employer-provided training, and have secondary jobs at a very high rate. Moreover, based on logit model analysis, we find that despite working long hours the doctors' desire to terminate or change their position does not increase, contrary to the specialized and technical professions or nurses. However, similar to other professions, doctors also have a distinct desire to reduce their working hours, even when receiving employee-provided training and career development.

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  • Atsuhiro Yamada & Nobuyuki Izumida, 2018. "Doctors' Way of Working: Long Hours, Training, Secondary Jobs, and Desire to Work," Keio-IES Discussion Paper Series 2018-017, Institute for Economics Studies, Keio University.
    • Handle: RePEc:keo:dpaper:2018-017
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    Keywords

    Doctors; Way of Working; Long Working Hours; Training; Desire to Work;
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    JEL classification:

    • J44 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Professional Labor Markets and Occupations
    • J63 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs
    • J81 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Standards - - - Working Conditions

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